re: Exploit on my computer?
Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 12:22 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alanna
(7 messages posted)
This is the first I've seen it described as a trojan, and I've looked at a lot of
sites trying to find out what to do. And they all say to just download the windows
update and that's it. I deleted the files that it was in and because of freezing
and error message pages I just reformated my hard drive. By that I mean I put the
original disk that came with the computer and had it redo my hard drive. But then
I got that message and I have this data file in my cookies folder that I can't get
rid of. When I saw the data file there I reformated again to try to rid my computer
of it but it's still there and I have no idea how to get rid of it but I know this--it
ain't good. I have Norton Internet Security on my computer plus the free version
of AVG and spybot and AdAware. After I reformated, Spybot caught that I had a DSO
Exploit on my computer and I told it to fix it....but that file is still in my cookie
folder. Thanks
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 7:27 pm, mistergil wrote:
>This is a trojan that causes Internet Explorer to display one location in the Address
>bar, but actually load the content from a different site. Such URL spoofing can
>result in attackers creating forged versions of legitimate sites in order to steal
>account information, personal information, etc. You should be running a good AV
program,
>Spybot, Adaware, Spyware Guard and some kind of firewall ( I like Outpost, but there
>are many). This virus generally does not cause system changes and is considered
a
>"low" threat. Your reformat data is confusing. Did you reinstall ME as well? Are
>there other partitions? etc.
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